Jack McBrayer Quotes
I have always prided myself on if, hypothetically, the entertainment industry just dissolved, just went away today, I feel that I have enough marketable skills that I could still contribute to society and make a difference. I'm a very good typist.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
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To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
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Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
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I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.
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It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.
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I really just want to work with good directors and learn as much as I possibly can.
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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
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And understand: class differences will not save you.
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I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I'd been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos.
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I have always prided myself on if, hypothetically, the entertainment industry just dissolved, just went away today, I feel that I have enough marketable skills that I could still contribute to society and make a difference. I'm a very good typist.
